St Gabriel's School Newsletter

Engaging with Place

'The Buzz'

 

Wominjeka 

Issue 13 of ‘The Buzz’

National Recycling Week was November 7-13 and we did some learning around the Australasian Recycling Labels and their differences and we also looked at “Which Bin Does It Go In?

We sorted a sample of household waste into the correct bin. We know that by recycling and sorting our rubbish we are helping our world by saving energy, creating less pollution, conserving natural resources and reducing the loss of our biodiversity.

Our cooking in the last few weeks has included French Toast and Honey Joys, please see recipes below.

Engaging With Place Recipes

Honey Joys

Ingredients

90g butter

⅓ cup sugar

1 Tbsp honey

4 cups cornflakes

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 150°C
  2. Line 24 patty cases onto an oven tray
  3. Melt butter, sugar and honey together until frothy.
  4. Add Cornflakes and mix well
  5. Spoon mixture into patty cases
  6. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes
  7. Cool before eating

 

Engaging With Place Recipes

French Toast

Ingredients

3 eggs

½ cup of milk

1 Tbsp brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

½ teaspoon cinnamon

4-5 slices of thick cut bread

A knob of butter

Method

  1. In a large bowl crack the eggs
  2. Add the milk, cinnamon, sugar and vanilla and whisk until combined.
  3. Dip the bread in the mixture and then flip to coat the other side.
  4. Place pan on medium heat with a knob of butter
  5. When the butter is bubbling, add the soaked bread
  6. Cook until golden brown.
  7. Remove from pan and top with your favourite toppings

(we had maple syrup and strawberries)

 

JokesToast Related Puns

You bread my mind.

You can always crust me.

Crumb here.

Slice to meet you.

Time to go to bread little buns!

Crust be yourself.

Don’t forget eggs will be on sale at the front office on Thursdays, subject to availability and on a first come, first serve basis

$3 for half a dozen

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning about our amazing Pollinators, these include birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps and most importantly bees. Pollinators provide essential ecosystem services in the natural landscape as well as within agricultural/horticultural and urban environments. We have looked at how they pollinate and how this benefits us and what we can do to look after our bee population in particular.

We were introduced to the mascot of Pollinator week, Rita the Reed Bee. Rita is indigenous to Australia, she is a semi social bee who doesn’t make honey, but she is a very important pollinator because she carries dry pollen in special hairs on her back legs.

 

Special Mention to our wonderful Sustainability Leaders this year Amelia Trezise and Alana Barrese, thank you girls for caring for our chickens so wonderfully, for starting some great initiatives within the school and for sharing your passion with us. We’re excited to see what our new leaders can build upon next year. Good luck as you head off to high school and hopefully you can continue to develop your environmentalist beliefs and practices.

A note from our Sustainability Leaders

In Engaging With Place we learn lots of different things.  Some of our favorite things are learning about endangered animals and women activists.  Engaging With Place has been a great experience and we have never in our lives ever done something like this before. We can’t wait to use our learning to help the environment. 
 
We have loved being Sustainability Leaders. Working with somebody else that shares the same passion has been amazing.  Being sustainability leaders, we have learnt a lot and done a lot.  Being a sustainability leader has a lot of commitments.  We have to do things like the worms and the chickens.  At the start of the year we even had to SWEEP!!!  We will miss Engaging With Place but can’t wait for next year's sustainability leaders to enjoy it as much as we did!
From Amelia & Alana!

Chicken🐔 Laycation🥚

The Christmas holidays are fast approaching and we’d love it if there was the possibility of a school family looking after our chickens over the Christmas break.

Preferably someone who already has a set up for our girls, we are happy to provide food and wood shavings for the duration.

Please email or call the office if this is you office@sgreservoir.catholic.edu.au